I do not know if my response is naïve. Apart from individual institutions taking a step as suggested, such decisions must be supported by DST / IACR and similar apex bodies who are funders. That will be a great step moving towards open access . Dr P Vyasamoorthy / 9490804278 On Mon, 31 Oct 2022 at 12:19, Subbiah Arunachalam wrote:

Friends and fellow information scientists,

This will be of interest: https://www.aaas.org/sites/default/files/2022-10/OpenAccessSurveyReport_Oct2... .

Please impress upon researchers in your institutions that 1. If research is supported by public funding, then using taxpayers' money to pay APC is immoral and unethical. [Please remember that in publicly funded research APC is almost always paid out of taxpayers' money given to the researcher for the purpose of doing research and not to be given away to publishers] 2. They could gain instant visibility to their work, as soon as it is ready for publication, by placing it in a preprint server virtually at no cost. For a list of OA repositories, please see https://doapr.coar-repositories.org/repositories/.

You may also propose the adoption of a Rights Retention Policy by your institution. That would mean no more copyright transfer to the journal publisher. The publisher will only have the exclusive right to publish the paper first.

With best wishes,

Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009